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Introduction

I completed my undergraduate degree in Pharmacology at Newcastle University where I remained to complete a PhD in neuroscience. I then took a position as a postdoctoral researcher at the MRC Cognitive Brain Science Unit in Cambridge before moving to University of Oxford in 2018. I was appointed as Stipendiary Lecturer in Neurophysiology at Queens College in 2023.

Teaching

I teach the “‘Introduction to Psychology’ Prelim course to Queen’s Experimental Psychology (EP) students.

Research

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Brain & Behaviour Research Group, where I conduct research into the cortical networks supporting perception, memory, and decision making. My current research is focussed on understanding communication between areas of the temporal and prefrontal cortex during sensory processing, and aims to understand how these areas communicate to process incoming information and to shape decisions and choices.

My research involves the use of several techniques in combination to link neuronal activity with behaviour. This includes developing behavioural testing paradigms as well as the analysis of a range of neuronal data. I frequently combine both neuroimaging (fMRI), and electrophysiology data to find neural activity associated with sensory features or outcomes, and to quantify how this information is communicated between areas of the brain.

Introduction

I am a postdoctoral research associate and member of the Oxford Centre for Nonlinear PDEs at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford. In 2023, I finished my PhD studies at the Technical University of Vienna (Austria) where I also studied Technical Mathematics as an undergraduate.

Teaching

During my PhD studies, I was responsible for the teaching of exercise classes in Partial Differential Equations, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Calculus of Variations and Mathematics for Electrical Engineers.

Research

My research combines techniques of stochastic analysis and partial differential equations and focuses on so-called large interacting particle systems and their limiting behaviour as the number of particles becomes arbitrarily large. In many cases, we can identify the limiting structures as solutions to certain partial differential equations. These types of particle limits — so-called mean-field limits — not only connect two important fields of mathematics (analysis and stochastics) in elegant way, but they have also become an emerging tool in applied mathematics with applications ranging from thermodynamics and neuroscience to artificial intelligence.

Publications

Please visit my Google Scholar profile for a complete list of my publications

Introduction

I was born and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico where I earned my bachelor’s degree at the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESO). Subsequently, I went on to pursue two master’s degrees in the Netherlands, including a Research MSc in Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. More recently, I completed my DPhil at the University of Oxford in the Oxford Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence. I am currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Brain & Behaviour Research Group led by Prof. Mark Buckley in the University of Oxford and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Queen’s college.

Teaching

I teach part of the first year ‘Introduction to Psychology’ course to Queen’s Experimental Psychology (EP), Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics (PPL), and Biomedical Science (BMS) students, particularly the Psychobiology and Cognition modules. I also provide tutorials to 2nd year students for their course in ‘Behavioural Neuroscience’. For final year students I provide a couple of lectures and tutorials for the Advanced Option entitled ‘Systems Neuroscience’. Additionally, I give a lecture on Learning and Memory for MSc in Neuroscience students for their A1 module.

Research

I am currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Brain & Behaviour Research Group where I investigate the neural activity that underlies and supports complex cognitive and neuropsychological processes like learning, memory and cognition.

Publications

A list of my publications can be found here

Introduction

I grew up in Essex where I attended by local comprehensive until the age of 16 (Mayflower High School, Billericay) and completed by A-Levels at a country grammar (King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford). I went on the study preclinical medicine at Downing College, Cambridge, followed by clinical medicine at New College, Oxford. Since then, I have largely stayed in the area and currently work as a Haematology Registrar across the Thames Valley Region.

Teaching

I help to teach the clinical medicine course at Queen’s by providing tutorials to students in their 4th-6th year.

Introduction

I am a historian of early modern Europe at the University of Oxford currently finishing my DPhil. Before embarking on doctoral research, I completed an MSt in Early Modern History at Oxford and my undergraduate studies at the University of Bristol.

Teaching

I teach undergraduate students British and European History 1500-1700, historiography and historical methods, and the history of political thought. I also teach master’s students on the strands for Intellectual History and Early Modern History.

Research

My research focuses primarily on the cultural and intellectual history of sixteenth and seventeenth century France. I explore the ways in which people understood the idea of ‘judgement’ and how this shaped different forms of writing in the early modern period such as natural philosophy, history, poetry and essays. More broadly, I am interested in how new ways of describing thought emerged in the context of the intellectual transformation of the Renaissance and the religious upheaval of the Reformation.

Introduction

Laura did a BA (2008) and MPhil (2009) at Corpus Christi College Cambridge, before completing a PhD in Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck, University of London (2015). She has previously taught at Birkbeck, Bath Spa, Royal Holloway, and St Anne’s College, Oxford. She is a fellow of the HEA.

Research

Laura’s research focuses on neurodivergence and early modern literature. Her second book, Shakespeare and Neurodiversity, a guide to teaching Shakespeare in an inclusive way is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. She is currently working on a new book project called Early Modern Neurodiversity: a Europe-wide study of neurodivergence in literary texts, and neurodivergent ways of reading these texts. Her research has recently been supported by the British Academy and Oxford University John Fell Fund. With Professor Siân Grønlie she founded and currently co-leads the project Neurodiversity at Oxford (neurodiversityoxford.web.ox.ac.uk).

Publications

For a full list of publications, see Dr Laura Seymour | Faculty of English (ox.ac.uk)

Introduction

I am holding a BA in General Rhetoric and Cultural Anthropology and an MA in Theory of Literature and Culture (both at the University of Tübingen). I completed my PhD in German Studies at the University of Birmingham where I worked comparatively on ‘exile literature’ from the 1930s and 1940s and contemporary ‘migrant literature’. I joined Oxford in 2022 as Departmental Lecturer in German at St Peter’s and Hertford College before taking up a position at Queen’s in 2023.

Teaching

My teaching focusses on modern German literature and translation, including prelims papers II, III and IV, and papers II, VIII and X for FHS. I lectured on E.T.A. Hoffmann, literature and race, and the Modern Period (paper VIII surveys). I have supervised dissertations on E.T.A. Hoffmann and Yoko Tawada.

Research

My research interests include literature on exile and migration, transnationalism, world literature, and gender. My PhD thesis offers a comparative analysis of Lion Feuchtwanger’s Wartesaal-trilogy (1930, 1933, 1940) and Abbas Khider’s novels Der falsche Inder (2008) and Ohrfeige (2016) to investigate how Jewish and Muslim minorities are discriminated against in Germany in these texts, especially in Bavaria and Berlin, in different historical contexts. Given the similarities and overlaps in discrimination against minorities which these texts depict, I argue in my thesis that a fruitful approach to reading Feuchtwanger’s and Khider’s novels comparatively is the notion of ‘world literature’.

Publications

Monograph

Minorities in Germanophone World Literature: A Comparative Study of Lion Feuchtwanger and Abbas Khider (Oxford: Legenda) (under review).

Book Chapters

‘Women and Death in Feuchtwanger’s Wartesaal’, in Women in Exile, ed. by Michaela Ullmann (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2024) (forthcoming).

‘Bayern auf der Couch: Feuchtwangers Erfolg psychoanalytisch gelesen’, in Feuchtwanger und München, ed. by Tamara Fröhler and Andreas Heusler (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022), pp. 339-359.

‘Das deutsche Theater in St. Petersburg’, in Zirkulation von Nachrichten und Waren: Stadtleben, Medien und Konsum im 19. Jahrhundert, ed. by Anna Ananieva (Tübingen: Tübingen University Press, 2016), pp. 177-183.

Article

‘The Figure of the Exiled Writer in Comparison: Intertextuality in Lion Feuchtwanger’s Exil (1940) and Abbas Khider’s Der falsche Inder (2008)’, TRANSIT,13.1 (2021) 34-51.

Review

Bettina Brandt and Yasmin Yildiz (eds.), Tales That Touch: Migration, Translation, and Temporality in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century German Literature and Culture (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2022), 354 pages. In: Oxford German Studies, 52.4 (2023) (forthcoming).

Introduction

I am currently a PDRA at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford. Before moving to the UK, I spent almost three years as postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. I received my PhD in Mathematics and Models from the University of L’Aquila, Italy, in 2019. As undergraduate, I studied Mathematics at the University of Naples “Federico II”, in Italy.

Teaching

Since I was a DPhil student I have tutored for courses in Calculus, Functional Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, and Continuum Mechanics, for which I was also co-lecturer, in Italy and Germany. Other than that, I supervised a MSc thesis on a particular application of optimal transport theory to PDEs.

Research

My research focuses on the analysis of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). They represent a fascinating, intriguing, and powerful mathematical tool to interpret, describe, and understand several phenomena, e.g., in biology, particle physics, social sciences, pedestrian dynamics, etc. I am particularly interested in PDEs modelling (nonlocal) interactions, as well as those showing a competition between aggregation and diffusion, also in case of systems — so called cross-diffusion systems. Among other properties, I am fascinated by the connection between micro and macro description, and the generalisation of some PDEs to non-standard ambient spaces, such as graphs or networks.

Publications

Please refer to my personal webpage for the list of my publications.

Introduction

Dr Hankinson studied English at Balliol College, completing his DPhil in 2020 under the supervision of Professor Matthew Reynolds. He has since taught at St Hilda’s College, St Anne’s College, and Jesus College, and worked as the Co-ordinator of the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre (OCCT), based at St Anne’s, where he currently leads a research strand on Comparative African Literatures.

Teaching

To Queen’s English undergraduates I teach both Prelims Paper 3, on nineteenth-century texts and contexts, and Prelims Paper 1b, an introductory paper on literary theory.

Research

Dr Hankinson’s research explores the relations between nationalism, belonging, foreignness, and style, with a particular focus on the period 1860-present. His work routinely involves the tracing of relations which proliferate beyond temporal and geographical boundaries, and the development of innovative comparative methodologies—two activities united in a forthcoming monograph which stages an encounter between the Victorian poet Robert Browning and the contemporary Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo Laing. 

Publications

Please visit: https://www.josephhankinson.com/articles.


Introduction

I grew up in London before coming up to Oxford to read English at Lady Margaret Hall. After graduating, I moved to Jesus College, Oxford for my Masters in medieval literature and subsequently for my DPhil. I have taught medieval English language and literature, and the English language, at a variety of Oxford colleges since 2008. Most recently, I have been working as a researcher on the EU-funded project CLASP: A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry located at the English Faculty here in Oxford. 

Teaching

I teach medieval language and literature, covering the period from the earliest written records of English in the seventh century until the reign of Henry VIII in the mid-sixteenth century. My teaching focuses, however, particularly upon the early medieval period. I also teach the history and development of the English language.

Research

My research focuses on Old English literature (roughly anything written in English before the twelfth century). I have particular interests in vernacular poetics, cultural constructions of space and place, and architectural metaphor. I am also peculiarly interested in the conceptualization of prisons in early medieval prose and verse, which is the focus of the book on which I’m currently working.

Publications

  • ‘The Gates of Hell: Invasion and Damnation in an Anonymous Old English Easter Vigil Homily’, in Leeds Studies in English: Special Issue – Architectural Representation in Early Medieval England (forthcoming).
  • ‘Landes to fela: Geography, Topography and Place in The Battle of Maldon’, in English Studies 98:8 (2017), 781–801.
  • ‘Associative Memory and the Composition of Ælfric’s Dominica in Quinquagessima (Catholic Homilies I 10)’, Notes & Queries 64:1 (2017), 5–10.
  • ‘Rewriting Gregory the Great: the Prison Analogy in Napier Homily I’, Review of English Studies 68 (2017), 203–23.
  • ‘Incarceration as Judicial Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England’, in eds. Jay Paul Gates and Nicole Marafioti, Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2014), 92–112.
  • ‘Literal and Spiritual Depths: re-thinking the ‘drygne seað’ of Elene’, Quaestio Insularis 10 (2009), 27–44.

Research

I am interested in control over the interaction between light and matter at the quantum level. I also study materials and devices for quantum optics and optoelectronics, primarily involving defects in diamond and semiconductor quantum dots, as well as applications in quantum communications and computing. Other areas of research include optical microsystems for quantum optics, chemical sensing and spectroscopy.


Introduction

I read Literae Humaniores as an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford, where I also took an MSt in ancient philosophy.  I subsequently moved to Oriel College, Oxford, where I completed my DPhil in philosophy and taught as a college lecturer.  I then spent five years as Career Development Fellow in Ancient Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford, following which, in 2019, I took up my current position at Queen’s.

Teaching

Ancient philosophy.

Research

My research interests are in ancient philosophy, with a focus to date on Hellenistic epistemology and scepticism.

Publications

‘Proof Against Proof: A Reading of Sextus Empiricus’ Against the Logicians 8.463-481’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 61 (2022), pp.263-304.

‘The Sceptic’s Art: Varieties of Expertise in Sextus Empiricus’ in Johansen, T. (ed.) Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy: The Concept of Technê, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp.226-244.

Five Modes of Scepticism: Sextus Empiricus and the Agrippan Modes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. x + 204.


Introduction

I completed my undergraduate degree in Psychology at Bangor University, where I remained to complete my Masters degree in Psychological Research with Clinical Neuroscience and PhD in Social Neuroscience. I came to Oxford in 2014 as a postdoctoral researcher and was appointed Departmental Lecturer in Experimental Psychology and College Lecturer in Statistics at Queen’s College in October 2017. 

Teaching

I teach statistics for the Experimental Psychology and Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics courses across Prelims, Part I and Part II. My teaching predominantly covers material from the Introduction to Probability Theory and Statistics and Experimental Design and Statistics Courses.  

Research

My research examines how humans navigate social environments focusing on how social information shapes decision-making processes. Specifically, I am interested in understanding how different pieces of social information contribute to decision-making, and the underlying neural processes. For example, how do facial expressions of emotion influence interpersonal and intergroup trust and cooperation? Social partners are a rich source of information and provide many cues, which we can use to guide our decision-making and behaviour. Therefore, my research aims to understand how people perceive, interpret, and use the different social cues they receive in an interaction (e.g. facial expressions of emotion, or behaviours such as the reciprocity of trust). To investigate these ideas I apply reinforcement learning, and neuroeconomic models to social interactions.

Publications

  • Shore, D.M., Ng, R., Bellugi, U., & Mills, D.L. (2017). Abnormalities in early visual processes are linked to hypersociability and atypical evaluation of facial trustworthiness: an ERP study with Williams syndrome. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience. doi:10.3758/s13415-017-0528-6
  • Ha, T., Granger, D. A., Shore, D. M., Yeung, E.W., & Dishion, T.J. (2015). Neural responses to partner rejection predict adrenocortical reactivity in adolescent romantic couples. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 61, 39. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.07.495. 


Introduction

Before coming to Oxford I lectured phonetics for clinical, fieldwork and ELT purposes (UCL and De Montfort University). I am a co-organiser of the biennial Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference and co-direct the Summer Course in English Phonetics at UCL. I also co-examined for the International Phonetic Association’s Certificate of Proficiency in the Phonetics of English.

Teaching

I teach Prelims Paper IX (Phonetics and Phonology), FHS Paper B/XII (Phonetics) and selected topics for General Linguistics Paper A.

Research

My research interests focus on experimental phonetics. I have been co-investigator on a project ‘Greek in Contact’, which looks at the impact of long-term language contact on the intonational patterns of Greek communities who lived and interacted with Turkish and Italian speaking populations. I am currently working on ‘nasal vowels’ of Polish with a view to establishing their phonemic make-up.

Publications

  • to appear – An overview of phonetics for language teachers. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary English Pronunciation (Okim Kang, Ron Thomson, John M. Murphy (eds). New York: Routledge.
  • to appear – Baltazani, M., Przedlacka, J., Coleman, J. Greek in contact: a historical-acoustic investigation of Asia Minor Greek intonational patterns. Proceedings of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory 7. Rethymno, October 2016
  • 2017 – Ashby, M. and Przedlacka, J. Technology and pronunciation teaching, 1890–1940. In McLelland, N. and  Smith, R. (eds) The History of Language Learning and Teaching II: 19th-20th Century Europe. Oxford: Maney: Legenda series.
  • 2014 – Ashby, M. and Przedlacka, J. Measuring incompleteness: acoustic correlates of glottal articulations. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 44 (3). 283-296.
  • 2015 – Przedlacka, J. and Baghai-Ravary, L. Pitch and segment duration in RP: a corpus-based historical exploration. 18th ICPhS Proceedings, Glasgow.
  • 2011 – Ashby, M. and Przedlacka, J. The stops that aren’t. Journal of English Phonetic Society of Japan 14-15.
  • 2005 – Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, K. and Przedlacka, J. (eds.) English Pronunciation Models: A Changing Scene. Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication 21. Frankfurt:  Peter Lang.
  • 2002 – Estuary English? A sociophonetic study of teenage speech in the Home Counties. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

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